Xavier Kurz, MD

Head of Data Analytics
European Medicines Agency
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Xavier Kurz graduated in 1982 as a Medical Doctor at the University of Liege, Belgium. He specialised in Tropical Medicine and worked for several years in public health projects in Africa and Asia. He obtained a MSc (1991) and a PhD (1997) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He then joined the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Liege and the Belgian Centre for Pharmacovigilance (Ministry of Health) as scientific expert. He joined the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on 1st September 2005. He is currently Head of Data Analytics within the Data Analysis and Methods Task Force.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentation(s):

• Data Harmonization, Standardization, and Quality Assessment in Distributed Health Data Networks: Lessons from Around the World

  Friday, August 26, 2022
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

• HARmonized Protocol to Enhance Reproducibility (HARPER): An ISPE-ISPOR Joint Task Force of the RWE Initiative

  Saturday, August 27, 2022
  4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

• Shaping the Future of Pharmacoepidemiology

  Sunday, August 28, 2022
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

• Emulation Differences versus Bias: Implications of Large-scale Emulation of Randomized Clinical Trials Using Clinical Practice Data (RCT-DUPLICATE)

  Sunday, August 28, 2022
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST